It’s never the grandkids. The Beatles sold the rights to their songs.

As if there would be no social networking without Zuckerberg.

Like any sin, the change starts with us. If we want a healthy social network, we can build a healthy social network.

Then article 42 of the EU

Or somebody else is doing the manipulation and is successfully putting the blame on Russia.

Congratulations that you acknowledge that rising minimum wage is a dead end.

Jobs can always be created by lowering interest rates. It’s just not in the hand of the workers to change, neither is minimum wage.

You don’t have to trust anything I said. I am telling you about market mechanisms that you can verify on your own.

You are right that I want to abandon minimum wage, or rather the need for minimum wage. I want the demand for work to rise to the point that workers earn livable wages that are secured by the demand for their work.

You can try to rise minimum wages however much you want. My point is that your time is better spent on rising demand for workers. Marx is telling you how that works. You definitely don’t have to trust me on that.

Would you pay for an insurance to help you weather the storm?

I don’t have that disregard. My point is that the supply of jobs has to be increased instead of setting a lower bound on wages.

Taking them as a whole, the general movements of wages are exclusively regulated by the expansion and contraction of the industrial reserve army

Focussing on minimum wages makes workers ignore how they are controlled and how they can increase their wages without having to rely on benevolence. To me, that’s disregardful.

Please read the article. It’s one of the most important things to know.

Seems like you don’t know this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour

I think I point out the obstacle to people making a living. There is no easy answer. Rising minumum wage sounds easy but as I wrote, it is a distraction.

Please don’t ignore my second paragraph.

It’s the wrong side to tackle the problem.

Wages can be risen with an increased demand for workers. How? That is the relevant question that leads to the right answers. Minimum wage is a distraction.

Thank you.

I wrote mental capacity because stress, irregular schedules, two jobs and all the other stuff drain energy and trap even clever people. Intelligence is only part of the problem.

My point is that they are not stupid but helpless. Usually I argue that there shouldn’t be minimum wage and that people have to organize to earn more, but I can see that it makes sense for that group.

Still, as we can see, relying on others is not sustainable. Minimum wage workers have to find a way to rise their wages on their own.

You must mean this:

because they don’t have the mental capacity to organize themselves.

Condescending, like the other thread says, I can see that. How can there be contempt for something that people cannot change. That would be stupid.

That’s why I ask, I would like to see it.

It’s an analysis, not a solution. Where is the contempt? You can tell me where I am wrong but I haven’t said anything about how anybody should be treated.

And if I am not?

What’s wrong with that analysis?

You could name the main hurdle without becoming a tutor.

Of course there are reasons like no time from working two jobs or union busting behavior as seen from Starbucks or Amazon.

But that leaves enough workers who could run the union.

The main problem is convincing all minimum wage workers to join the union. Somebody has to come up with the necessary communication strategy. Whoever can do that most likely doesn’t work a minimum wage job.

MLK was killed because he was trying to overcome the suppression. It is the workers’ abilities because leaders could have picked up where he was stopped. There are no leaders, which to me means, there are no abilities.